Not sure why you brought the nationality of the devs into this, but I don't trust games in general, at least without some kind of containerisation or sandboxing. If I wanted tons of people to run my data mining trojan and not pay attention to things like processor load or network traffic, I'd probably make it a game.

I think you should avoid playing this types of games. Their community is better without you.

As a US resident:

If China wants my data while the US treats them as a hostile entity? That's WORLDS better than US companies having my data, and handing it over to the NSA without a warrant.

There is no precedent of China meddling on someone elses business, let alone a random civilian, so not only it is crazy to assume so it's also inherently racist. The US does have precedent of it for what it's worth yet you're not distrustful of them. You're a victim of state sponsored propaganda.

US is also surveillance state

Ummm if you're really serious about privacy wouldn't you have already switched to GrapheneOS and Linux? Like people who actually care about this stuff avoid Google, Microsoft... and proprietary software like the plague

If surveillance is the worry shouldn't that same skepticism apply beyond just China? I dunno it kinda feels less about privacy and more about a specific distrust, you know?

IDK. I don't trust Chinese (closed-source) software either. I believe TikTok does gather a ton of data (though it's not Chinese now). On the other hand, I will likely never go to China, so there's not much the CCP could do to me (maybe blackmail me if I was a politician or something); while the opposite is true for the US.

I should not say crazy so much as racist. The idea of a westerner calling China a "well known surveillance state" without irony is farcical. What exactly are you worried will happen?

yes

Do you not trust American made games?

Yes. Might need to dissect some stuff internally

Incredibly so yes

China isn't any more of a surveillance state than the US and Europe already. Why would a Chinese game be any worse than the ways you're spied on by people that can actually do something with your data? Wherever you live, assuming it isn't China, your data is already being collected by people far more capable of doing something about it if they found something they didn't like, and far more interested in doing so.

Let's face it, the CPC almost certainly doesn't care about you, and it would be better for the PRC to have your data than your local government and corporations, that do care far more about you. I don't see why fearing a developing socialist state so much makes any sense.

yes, you are

I hate liberals so much it's unreal.

I would say you are not paranoid, but the reasons you have equally apply to non Chinese Games and social networks.

So to be consistent, either not play Games and get off of social networks, or do it.

Am I being to paranoid ?

No, you are not enough paranoid if you don't have the same or worse concerns about games developed in western countries. e.g. five eyes alliance.

Yes.

It's crazy to trust any closed source software.

China isn't going to spy on you any more than American games. Not saying they won't, but like, you have a phone? That's more of a privacy issue by itself than almost any game you could play.

The Chinese government should be no more a concern for privacy than any other government. The only one worse than any other for you specifically is the one in which you reside, which would be able to make the best use of that data. The only exception is if you're a dissident or target of a foreign country.

Security and economic contribution are a different beast.